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dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 19, 2008
I swear to God, if I see another story on NBC about “How I made it to the Olympics despite (a) my crippling neural disease, (b) stifling poverty and a crippling neural disease, (c) my whole poverty-stricken …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 19, 2008
Scrum is supposed to be about getting repeatability. The thing is, you don’t get repeatability until you’ve actually repeated something. N == 0 Not repetition N == 1 Not repetition N == 2 Not so fast: you haven’t …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 14, 2008
Here is C-Span’s political / Washington D.C. glossary. link [I was reading about a Thailand government official who was advocating that the publishers / developers of GTA be prosecuted for “copycat” crimes — I was …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 12, 2008
More stuff that pops into my head during triage meetings. —- Oh, thars - Data-driven, Top-Down, Structured, Procedural and Agile Incremental, Bottom-up and Spiral (though it’s fragile) Rational will suck you in and …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 5, 2008
The delete key is your friend. The less code you have, the less code you have understand, the faster the remaining code runs, and your builds will be done sooner. Omit needless junk, aggressively get rid of crap you …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Jul 20, 2008
After working for some biggish companies (and I do include Atari Corp., which had maybe 200 people, because of the Large Pockets personally financing the firm), I did a number of Silly Valley start-ups. Here is a …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Jul 16, 2008
I’ve been involved in a few projects that were using Scrum. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have velocity all the time when I work. My working style is more like: Fidget for a while, noodling with things until …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Jul 11, 2008
“Elmo not want this. Elmo reallllly not want this. Why you do this to Elmo?” [Bored, in a meeting, and for some reason there’s a bucketful of toys next to my chair . . . the next thing I know I’m waving Elmo around by …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Jul 8, 2008
Once upon a time at Atari, I helped the Secret Service bust some bad guys. Let me be up front about this: It was related to my work, it was kind of fun at first, and if offered the chance to do it again, I’d refuse for …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Jul 6, 2008
Thomas Disch is dead. Sigh. link I’ll make another stab at On Wings of Song.